http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593971 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593971#c0 Summary: Grub root= incorrect with 2 SCSI controllers Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 4 Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mludvig@logix.net.nz QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.18) Gecko/2010020400 SUSE/3.0.18-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.18 My Dell PowerEdge 800 has two SCSI controllers with 12 HDDs hanging off. Installation was made to /dev/sde2 which is a partition on one of the internal disks. Grub menu.lst has correspondingly root=/dev/sde2. So far so good. However after reboot the harddrive with root filesystem is detected as /dev/sdi and obviously booting fails because the root fs can't be mounted. Manual update of root= in /boot/grub/menu.lst from /dev/sde2 to /dev/sdi2 fixes the problem, on the other hand the installer left the system unbootable which is certainly wrong. My guess is that during installation the drivers for SCSI controllers are loaded in a reverse order than in normal boot, leading to different disk names. While this may not be a common problem for desktop users it may certainly hit users of enterprise servers with multiple disk controllers. Verified in 11.3 Milestone 1 and Milestone 4 Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.